CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2016-10173
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- minitar:archive-tar-minitar
- minitar:minitar
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 | RubyGems | archive-tar-minitar | <0.5.2 | 0.5.2 |
| GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 | RubyGems | minitar | <0.6 | 0.6 |